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Unsuk Chin
Alice in Wonderland (2005-07)
Libretto by David Henry Hwang and Unsuk Chin after Lewis Carroll (E)

(2004-07) 120'
Opera in eight scenes

an extract of the Initial Stage-Direction in the Libretto:
"Lights rise to reveal an ancient library, filled with countless books, from
floor to ceiling. An Old Lady guides her through the space. Alice discovers
two Old Men, identical twins, playing chess and speaking inaudibly to each
other. the Old Lady places a golden book in the girl's hand. Then she
disappears.

"Alice opens the book. In that moment, one of the book-covered walls
transforms into a giant stone gate. Putting down the book, Alice crosses the
portal. It opens slowly inwards, revealing. an old treasure chamber, filled
with splendid jewels and treasures, covered with dust."

Scene I - Dream I
Alice opens a book in the library, which thereupon turns into a treasure
chamber. She meets a boy, who's fate is to carry a mummified cat, and two
old men whom she asks in vain to flee before the door to the treasure
chamber closes.

Scene II - The Pool of Tears
Alice follows the White Rabbit down a hole in the ground, falls into the
depths and finds herself in front of several locked doors.
Alice opens one door with a key and sees a garden full of bright flowers,
but the door is too small for her to get through into the garden.
Alice drinks from a little bottle with a label on it, on which the words
,Drink Me' are printed, shrinks and is now too small to open the door with
the big key.
Alice eats a cake from a little box which has a label with ,Eat Me' printed
on it, grows again and is now too big to get through the doors.
Alice startles the White Rabbit with her size, and he drops the kid gloves
and the fan.
Alice cries, falls into a pool of her own tears and offends a mouse swimming
in the pool by talking enthusiastically about her cat.
Alice and other wet creatures dry off as they listen to the mouse telling
them the driest story he knows.
Alice again mentions her cat and all the animals flee.

Scene III - In the House of the White Rabbit
Alice has to look for the gloves and the fan and enters the house. Her body
grows again while the White Rabbit sings a love song at the windows and the
door.

Interlude I - Advice from a Caterpillar
Alice hears words of wisdom from the caterpillar about the advantages of
change.

Scene IV - Pig and Pepper
Alice meets the Fish and the Frog, footmen in livery, as well as the Duchess
with the Baby, the Cook and the Cheshire Cat.
Alice is shocked by the ill-treatment of the Baby at the hands of the
Duchess and the Cook and sings a lullaby for the baby, which turns into a
pig.
Alice asks the Cheshire Cat, whose body is disappearing all the time, about
the way to somewhere and is sent to see the March Hare.

Scene V - A Mad Tea Party
Alice meets the March Hare, the Dormouse and the Mad Hatter, for whom time
has stood still and whom nobody has been able to help.
Alice is excluded from the tea party.

Scene VI - The Croquet Ground
Alice comes across three gardeners who are trying to turn white roses into
red ones for the Queen of Hearts.
Alice is invited by the Queen of Hearts to a game of croquet with no rules,
which ends in chaos, and the Queen orders the bodyless cat to be beheaded.
The executioner fails to do this, as one cannot cut the head off a cat with
no body.

Interlude II
Alice is rescued from the philosophizing Duchess by the Queen and taken to
eat Mock Turtle soup until soldiers call people to come to court for a
trial.

Scene VII - The Trial or Who Stole the Tarts?
Alice is called upon as the third witness, after the Mad Hatter and the
Cook, to testify about what happened to the tarts.
Alice is not afraid as she realizes that the Court and the Queen of Hearts
are ridiculous, nothing but a pack of playing cards.

Finale - Dream II
At the request of an invisible man, Alice searches in vain for seeds in the
infertile black soil of the garden, whereupon the invisible man puts seeds
in her hand.
Alice sows flowers which turn into shining light.

© Bavarian State Opera